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CARKED
Verb
carked
simple past tense and past participle of cark
Anagrams
• arcked, craked, racked
Source: Wiktionary
CARK
Cark, n. Etym: [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.]
Definition: A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.
Cark, v. i.
Definition: To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.
Cark, v. t.
Definition: To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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